1. [John Minihan Collection] – Minihan, John / Heaney, Seamus.

Original photograph of Seamus Heaney at his 70th birthday in his home in Dublin, in the year 2009 / Titled and Signed by John Minihan in 2014 / The vintage photograph is here framed together with the original commemoration Stamp and signed First Day Cover of Anpost [The photograph was used as a Template for the creation of the Anpost Stamp in 2014].

Vintage Photograph on archival paper / Vintage First Day Cover with extra signature by John Minihan. Dublin, 2014. Image of the Photograph: 16 cm x 24 cm / First Day Cover: 18 cm x 12 cm. Overall Framed Size: 79 cm wide x 53,5 cm high. From the personal library of irish photographer John Minihan. Titled and signed by John Minihan. Beautifully framed (see multiple images on our website). Our company knows of an edition of four photographs and signed First Day Covers, which we bought from John Minihan in 2014 and which he signed in 2014. Later, signed First Day Covers are circulating and we have some of those in our archive for sale. But since John Minihan has sold the rights to most of his iconic images to UCC in Cork, none of the photographs are reprinted by the photographer and that makes this combination of the signed Seamus Heaney photograph, combined with the First Day Cover, signed actually on August 28th of 2014, very scarce. We have an edition of 3 (three) left. One is part of the “John Minihan Photography Collection”, which we are selling on our website (see under “Libraries & Collections”) and two are for sale on the free international market. The here offered, beautifully framed version, is one of these two. The price includes free shipping as a framed version within Ireland / The price includes free international shipping per UPS Courier but only unframed (we pay for framing in your home-country) !

2. [John Minihan Collection] – Minihan, John. (*1946)

Samuel Beckett – photographed in Room 604 at The Hyde Park Hotel in London, 1980. [Artist Proof] !

Rare, modern print of the 1989 Original / Vintage Photograph on archival paper. London, c. 2010. Photograph: c. 50 cm wide x 38 cm high / Framed: 60 cm wide x 47 cm high. Titled and signed by John Minihan. From his personal Archive. Marked as A/P (Artist Proof) by John Minihan.

3. Aiken, Henry David / [Hans Jonas] / Quine, W.V.O.

Typed letter, signed by German-born, American Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas, loosely inserted in Henry David Aiken’s pamphlet “God and Evil: A Study of Some Relations Between Faith and Morals”. The Essay by Aiken is inscribed and signed by Aiken in a sarcastic manner: “To God, from one of his congregation – Shem”. In the letter, Jonas reflects on two pages on an evening with Henry David Aiken and his then wife Lillian Woodworth. In his letter to Aiken, Hans Jonas reports back to Aiken after reading his essay [″God and Evil”] and calls it “a beautiful piece of work – in style and content worthy of your “master” who wrote on natural theology….”. Jonas goes on encouraging Aiken: “you are also dead wrong n not publishing a collection of your essays in ethical theory. If your pal Quine can do it “from a logical point of you [sic]”, so can you “from a moral point of view”. Jonas also mentions “that it is worth writing about the ancient problem opf a theodicy in a contemporary context”. [The Essay is n Offprint from Ethics, An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy, Volume LXVIII, No. 2].

New York / Washington, DC, 1958. 16,8 x 24 cm. 21 pages (pages 77-97 of the Journal) plus two page-letter (on one leaf), signed by Hans Jonas Original Offprint / Original TLS (Typed letter signed). Very good+ condition. Stapled. Only minimal signs of staining. The letter also discusses a Reference for one “Ed Sayles” and Jonas suggest that Aiken writes “casual but fairly strong” to Howard R. Bartlett, professor of history and head of the Department of Humanities at MIT.

4. [Churchill, Sir Winston / Theodore Roosevelt / Herbert Hoover / Léon Blum / Sven Hedin / Alexej Tolstoi / Jules Romain and others].

Excentric Shampoo [Camouflage Resistance Pamphlet against Fascism and the November Pogrom and Kristallnacht in 1938 in Berlin – Germany]. This rare, original, german-language pamphlet, was deliberately published hidden in an envelope, disguised as a shampoo-sample and fabricated to have been published by the company “Lloyd Parfumerie” [Lloyd Perfumes].

[possibly London], Lloyd Parfumerie, [c.1938 / 1939]. Small Octavo (8,7 cm x 14,2 cm). 47 pages in vintage envelope. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

5. Florence / Pisa – Carocci, G. et al.

Collection of six stunning, early 19th-century gouache-aquatints of Florence and Pisa including a rare segment showing a Funerary Procession in front of Giotto’s Campanile, part of the complex of buildings that make up Florence Cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Italy. These very able and fantastically hand-coloured, original artworks, represent the peak of high-quality souvenirs for the European Traveller on their Grand Tour. [Loggia dei Lanzi / Cattedrale di Firenze / Piazza S. Trinita / Campanile Della Cattedrale di Firenze / Ponte S. Trinita / Campanile Di Pisa].

Original Aquatint (hand-applied water-colouring over copper engraving). Florence / Pisa, [c.1820]. Plate Sizes vary: 31 cm x 22.1 cm. Sheet Sizes vary: 34.6 cm x 26.5 cm. Original Gouache-Aquatint (hand-applied water-colouring over copper engraving). Florence/Pisa, [c.1820]. Plate-Sizes vary: c. 31 cm x 22.1 cm. Sheet Sizes vary: c. 34.6 cm x 26.5 cm. Besides some smaller damages to the Ponte S. Trinita-artwork in very good, actually stunning, condition. Clean, crisp and brightly coloured. All of these artworks are beautifully framed and the price includes worldwide free shipping per UPS – courier.

6. Johnson, Samuel.

A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the words are deduced from their Originals, Explained in their Different Meanings, and Authorized by the names of the writers in whose Works they are found. Abstracted from the Folio Edition, by the Author Samuel Johnson A.M. To which is prefixed, An English Grammar. To this edition are added, A History of the English Language, The Author’s Preface to the Folio and a considerable Number of Words, none of which are contained in the London Octavo.

Dublin, Printed by W.G.Jones, for Thomas Ewing, in Dame-Street, 1768. Octavo (14 cm x 21,5 cm). 1026 unnumbered pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century leather with new spine-label. In protective Mylar. Binding with some rubbing and minor defects to the leather. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of John & Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with the name of John Meade on the titlepage.

7. Broch, Hermann.

Der Tod des Vergil.

New York, Pantheon, 1945. 8°. 522 Seiten. Originaler Halbleinenband in Mylar. Erste deutschsprachige Ausgabe. Nur wenige Wochen nach der englischen Erstausgabe publiziert, ist “Der Tod des Vergil” die wohl bedeutendste Publikation der deutschen Exilliteratur.

8. Verne, Jules / [Austin, Henry].

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. Illustrated [with two Frontispieces] by Henry Austin.

Two Volumes in One (complete). London, Ward, Lock & Co., no year (c. 1902). Octavo (14 cm x 18,5 cm). Part I: Frontispiece (with Nautilus Submarine), VII, 146 pages / Part II: Frontispiece, 185 pages plus 6 pages of advertising. Hardcover / Original, very decorative, illustrated publisher’s binding with a stunning design after Henry Austin. The notoriously fragile publication was professionally rectored and strengthened with new endpapers. Tight and firm. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by a private owner: “″James Ernest Howell, with love from his father”.

9. [Trattner]

Institutionum Grammaticarum Linguae Graecae Pars Altera Ad Usum Scholarum Austriacarum. Continens: Supplementa Grammatica, Chrestomathiam Graecam, Lexicon Hermeneutico-Analyticum.

Vienna, Trattnern, 1795. 18cm x 12cm. 546 pages plus Appendix with ″ Lexicon Hermeneutico-Analyticum” [120 unnumbered pages]. Original Hardcover in protective Collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor external signs of wear. [Exemplar von Friedrich Georg Julius Heinrich Freiherr von Lasberg, mit seinem Besitzvermerk auf dem Vorsatzblatt].

10. Steinbuch, Johann Georg.

Analecten neuer Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen für die Naturkunde. Mit zwei Kupfern.

Fürth, im Bureau fuer Litteratur, 1802. Octavo. 135 Seiten. Softcover / Originale Interimsbroschur des 19.Jahrhunderts. Stellenweise etwas stockfleckig, Titel mit altem Stempel. Mit handschriftlicher Korrektur im Text [Salamander statt “Eidechsen und Froesche”] / Ehemaliges Exemplar der koeniglichen Bibliothek der Akademie Schwedens.